Efficient Second-Order Strang Splitting Scheme with Exponential Integrating Factor for the Scalar Allen-Cahn Equation.

An efficient and easy-to-implement second-order Strang splitting approach is mainly applied to study the scalar Allen-Cahn (AC) equation in this paper. Base on the idea of dimensional splitting, a new time dependent function (called exponential integrating factor) is introduced for the scalar AC equation. Then we propose the Strang splitting approach which is aim to decompose the original equation into linear part and nonlinear part. In particular, the explicit 2-stage strong stability preserving Runge-Kutta(SSP-RK2) method is employed for the nonlinear part. Furthermore, we rigorously demonstrate the maximum principle, energy stability and convergence of the proposed scheme. Various numerical simulations in 2D and 3D are presented to confirm the validity of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]